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Last night’s Board meeting mirrored the quality 
of work happening in our schools. That and 
more, next!

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In recognition of Counseling month, I had 
the distinct pleasure of thanking our awesome 
counselors.

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I hope you will join me in recognizing these 
folks for the amazing work they do each day 
for our students.

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The Board honored outstanding students with 
lofty goals and teachers with true hearts 
for kids from Kaiser Elementary, Krahn Elementary, 
and Wunderlich Intermediate schools.

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Four employees were recognized for promotions 
into new administrative roles and I look 
forward to great things from each of them.

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Kevin Wiseman was honored by Board President 
Bill Pilkington as this month’s outstanding 
alumnus...

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...and ExxonMobil, represented by Anita Taylor, 
received the Stand Up for Texas Public Schools 
award.

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Congratulations to all of these fine folks.

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The finance department was once again recognized 
with two certificates for achievement in 
financial reporting.

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Kudos to our Finance team.

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The board OK'd the district to begin a curriculum 
audit. More to come on that.

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Finally, the Board approved the final local 
innovation plan so that we can move forward 
as a District of Innovation.

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My personal thanks to the Local Innovation 
Plan Team and the District Instructional 
Development Council for their work on this 
important and exciting plan.

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Please know that each of the plan’s goals 
will be collaboratively designed and will 
occur over time.

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Hey, on February 20th, we are going to release 
possible versions of next year’s calendar 
and we'll be asking for feeback from all 
of our stakeholders...

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...so we can reccommend a calendar to the 
board at the March meeting.

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That's a wrap for this week. See you next 
week.

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